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Professor Christopher Charles Benninger lives and works in India and Bhutan. He is involved in the design of new towns, cities and large educational campuses (Please refer to Wikipedia). Born in America in 1942, Christopher Charles Benninger has lived in India for the past forty years. He studied urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and architecture at Harvard University, where he became a tenured Assistant Professor in 1970. A Fulbright Fellowship brought him to India in 1968, where he worked with Balkrishna Doshi. He returned to Ahmedabad as Ford Foundation Advisor to found the School of Urban Planning there in 1972. Benninger founded the Centre for Development Studies in India in 1976, involving him in Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia and Sri Lanka where he carried out assignments for the World Bank, the United Nations and for the Asian Development Bank. His innovative Site and Services approach to self-help housing in Chennai in the early 1970’s became a global model of shelter accessibility. For the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS) he wrote the Theme Paper for the Seventh Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements (1984). He has lectured widely in Asia, Europe and North America. Benninger has won the Great Masters Award as one of only six recipients in the Indian subcontinent; The Golden Architect Award and prestigious awards from the Indian Institute of Architects. He won Designer of the Year Award (1999) in India, and the American Institute of Architects’ Award (2000), jointly sponsored by Business Week and the Architectural Record for his design of the Mahindra United World College of India. The project was also a finalist for the Aga Khan Award. Benninger’s designs and theoretical articles have appeared in journals and chapters of books around the world. Professor Benninger is on the Board of Editors of CITIES, a journal dedicated to urban studies in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Institute of Town Planners, India, and an Associate Member of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Planning Association. He is the Patron if the Planning Institute in America. Professor Benninger is presently designing the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata’s new campus, the Azim Premji University and the Indian Institute of Technology at Hyderabad.